The last event of the season has started in Le Havre on November 7th, that is to say 4 days after the date originally scheduled.
Because of the tough weather conditions, the organizers of the Transat Jacques Vabre played the caution card by delaying the departure day, so that the fleet of the four classes involved benefited from better weather conditions to leave for the journey of over 5300nm.
However, a weather stop had been scheduled for the Class40, in order to lay low and find shelter during the strong gale announced. A pitstop of almost 40h for the 26 boats. GDF SUEZ, 1st boat to enter Roscoff marina Friday afternoon was therefore the 1st one to sail again on Sunday November 10th at 4 am. ECOELEC FANTRONIC followed 9h later.
While the Mod70 sail briskly towards Itajai, the match between the Class40 has started again ff the coasts of Brittany, maybe not as fast as the bigger boats, but with the skippers equally motivated to rapidly reduce the distance which separates them from the finish line in Brazil.
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